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It can count as copyright infringement and does count as plagiarism. So no.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
We don't allow copypasted stuff in the pages (Wikipedia show descriptions, etc) so I'm pretty sure that would be a rules violation.
Where did you find this? The mods will probably want to pull the person in for a chat.
EDIT: Ninja'd
Edited by DracMonster
If you want to get technical, it is not even written anywhere that a review needs to be a review.
The site does have a hard and fast rule against plagiarism.
As to the apparently unstated purpose of reviews, that is for troper reviews of works only. Anything else should be removed when found.
Well, I asked because Redaka has been posting transcripts of the Dragon Ball Z film reviews done by Team Four Star this December without crediting them for their work or modifying them in any way.
Edited by SpectralTime
That definitely sounds as plagiarism.
Link, please?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
He's not even bothering to clean up markup that didn't transfer correctly, either. (At least I assume that's what's all those extra slashes are...)
Edited by DracMonster
No, those're just the result of using certain kinds of punctuation in the review box.
No acknowledgement is a huge don't-do. And copyright issues. The mods are definitely gonna want to tap this fella on the shoulder.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett
I mean... as much as that's both annoying and technically plagiarism, I'm not sure it's actually breaking any hard-and-fast rules.